Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson ( born September 26, 1962 in Brooklyn ) is an American photographer.

Gregory Crewdson belonged to as a teenager, a punk rock group called The Speedies. Their hit Let Me Take Your Photo Crewdson takes to become a photographer. He studied with Tod Papageorge. Crewdson staged his photos at a cost that is usually found only in Hollywood movies. His works, which sometimes recall the films of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Steven Spielberg, tell depressing stories from the U.S. life that make the viewer a lot of room for interpretation.

He currently teaches at the Yale School of Arts. Because of the high production effort is his work only from a relatively small number of photographs.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005 Hannover, Kunstverein
  • 2006 Krefeld, Haus Lange, Haus Esters
  • 2006 Fotomuseum Winterthur
  • 2006 Linz, State Gallery
  • 2007 Gothenburg Art Museum, Hasselblad Centre
  • 2007 FOTO.KUNST, Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2010 Uncanny Realities - Duane Hanson and Gregory Crewdson, Baden -Baden, Museum Frieder Burda
  • 2010 CORSO. Works from the Essl Collection dialog, Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2011 In a Lonely Place, C / O Berlin

Literature (selection )

  • Stephan Berg (ed.): Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3- 7757-1622 -X. Catalog of exhibitions in Hannover (2005), Krefeld, Winterthur and Linz ( 2006). Texts in German and English.
  • Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses. Works from 2003 to 2007. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, 140 pp.
  • Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3136-2.
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